Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Never, never, never give in!

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.